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A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

About A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone-as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780253357069
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 560
  • Published:
  • March 21, 2012
  • Edition:
  • 2
  • Dimensions:
  • 241x165x38 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 998 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: June 22, 2023

Description of A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone-as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Publishers description of A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

A comprehensive manual of performance practice for 17th century music

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